A Cordon Sanitaire for the Empire?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter I. Early Encounters
6. Introduction 17
7. Russian–Ottoman Confrontation and the Establishment of the Phanariot Regime 20
8. The Peace of Kuchuk-Kainarji and the Russian Protectorate 29
9. Russian Occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1806–1812 39
10. Church Policies under Russian Occupation 51
11. Chapter II. Challenges of Empire-Building in a Revolutionary Age
12. Introduction 63
13. The “Greek Project” of Ioannis Kapodistrias 66
14. The Bessarabian Experiment of Alexander I 71
15. Russia’s Eastern Policy and Stroganov’s Mission 79
16. Kapodistrias, Alexander I, and the Greek Rebellion 99
17. Chapter III. The Uprisings of 1821 and Their Impact
18. Introduction 105
19. 1821 and Anti-Greek Sentiment in Moldavia and Wallachia 109
20. Tensions among the Boyars and Their Projects of Reform 119
21. Moldavian Boyar Radicals and Conservatives 125
22. The Convention of Akkerman 136
23. Chapter IV. From Akkerman (1826) to Adrianople (1829)
24. Introduction 147
25. The Russian Empire and the Elites of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1826–28 152
26. The War of 1828–29 and the Russian Occupation of the Principalities 162
27. The Genesis of the Reform Agenda 170
28. Ministerial Instructions and the Formation of the Committee of Reform 177
29. The Peace of Adrianople 184
30. Chapter V. The Organic Statutes and Russia’s Eastern Policy
31. Introduction 191
32. Boyar Opposition to the Organic Statutes 196
33. The Affair of Sion and Its Consequences 202
34. The Adoption of the Organic Statutes by the Assemblies of Revision 210
35. Kiselev’s Vision of the Principalities and Russia’s Eastern Policy 219
36. Chapter VI. A Well-Ordered Police State on the Danube
37. Introduction 231
38. Plague Epidemics and the Creation of the Danubian Quarantine 234
39. The Creation of Militia and Police Reform 245
40. Fiscal Reform and Peasant Obligations 253
41. Administrative and Judiciary Reform 260
42. Foreign Subjects, Dedicated Monasteries, and Censorship 265
43. Chapter VII. Russian Policies in Moldavia and Wallachia After 1834
44. Introduction 277
45. Russia and the Problem of Unification of the Principalities 281
46. Political Tensions in Moldavia and Wallachia in the Late 1830s 292
47. A Cordon Sanitaire for the Empire? 300
48. The Limits of Hegemony 311
49. Conclusion 323
50. Appendix 1 333
51. Appendix 2 334
52. Glossary 339
53. Bibliography 341
54. Index 365